Immersed in the sounds of composers such as Grażyna Bacewicz, Philip Glass, and Henry Mancini, we will seek our own breath, dive into the recesses of our imagination, and, carried by waves of music, allow our bodies – both the tiny ones and the big ones – to gently drift. The human body is approximately 70% water, and a newborn’s body is as much as 80%. We will listen to the rivers within our bodies, let them make their noise, splash about, and pour here and there… Who knows, perhaps along the way we will encounter other rivers and streams, and as a result we’ll try to flow in one current together?
“Nucirzeczka” is a performative event combining live music and movement. Together with the artists, participants will stimulate their senses, bodies, and imagination. We invite you to come in clothes that allow freedom of movement. Splash!
Before and after the concerts, we invite parents and carers with children to enjoy treats at our café. The café is open from 9:00 to 14:00.
Performers:
Marta Piórkowska violin
Krzysztof Kozłowski piano
Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska choreography and performance
Anna Szawiel performance
Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska | www.olabomu.com | www.holobiont.pl
Improviser, choreographer, performer. She is the creator of over a dozen original choreographies, and her works have been presented in Berlin, Budapest, Philadelphia, New York, Warsaw, and Vienna, among others. In 2017, together with Hanna Byłka-Kanecka, she founded the Holobiont collective, whose aim is interdisciplinary multigenerational projects. One of her recent choreographies, “Goździk w pustej muszli”, was distinguished in the Best Dance Performance category for the 2021/22 season by Teatr monthly. In 2022, she created the choreography for “Rodzina”, a co-production of TR and Teatr 21. In her works, she explores the boundaries between simplicity and naivety, presentation and facilitation, and finding patterns and breaking them. The visual aspect and a distinctive sense of humour are characteristic of her work. Her body responds very well when it can do what it likes.
About the series:
ĄsąBąble are performative concerts featuring new music for families with children aged 0–7. Each concert is based on an original scenario in which listening to music, interactive play, and educational value are equally important. In a space friendly to the youngest listeners, you can hear music by leading contemporary composers, adapted in version and proportion for young ears. The theatrical format of the concerts fosters concentration and allows the audience to be enchanted by sounds, while the invitation to improvise together releases the natural need for expression in young people. In the spirit of Janusz Korczak’s words “There are no children, only people,” all participants are treated with respect and have their part in shaping the event. The series presents exclusively 20th and 21st-century music. A permanent element is the presentation of a recording of a symphonic work or a piece from the sound design and electronic music domain.
Although each edition of ĄsąBąble takes musical texture as its starting point, it is also rich in extra-musical contexts close to the practice of Hashtag Ensemble: literary, visual, and social. The events are interdisciplinary in nature: guest artists who have long worked in proximity to children’s imagination also take part – dancers, performers, illustrators, and writers. Theatre is a natural field of activity for new music, which is why the educational character of the ĄsąBąble series also includes the actors’ training of the musicians.
The curator and host of the series is Anna Szawiel – an actress and voice artist who specialises in interdisciplinary cultural and educational events. She enjoys working at the boundaries: between concert and performance, education and play, physicality and abstraction, always in touch with children’s imagination. The concert programmes are co-created by musicians of Hashtag Ensemble.
The ĄsąBąble project creatively develops the concept of the “Smykowizje” series by the “Muzyka jest dla wszystkich” foundation, within which Hashtag Ensemble and Anna Szawiel performed together more than 130 concerts and mini-performances between 2016 and 2022, seeking the most interesting forms of presenting new music. The concept and curatorship of Smykowizje was created by Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series of events in Poland addressed to the very youngest, in which contemporary music played the leading role.